Re: Question regarding EIP instruction pointer
"A D" <[email protected]>
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leslie.polzer wrote: >In order to execute the current instruction, the CPU must determine its >format, which also means finding out how many bytes the command takes. > >Next command is at eip+sizeof(command). Of course, this only holds for >subsequent execution, branching is another thing. Thanks for your insight. You mentioned the process is different for branching. Is it possible to explain a little(I'm a bit curious)? _________________________________________________________________ Your Space. Your Friends. Your Stories. Share your world with Windows Live Spaces. http://spaces.live.com/?mkt=en-ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-assembly" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html